Hello,

Here no sound on XP (SP3) either.

I was ready for some noise so I pasted ver504 over ver503. Ver503 was working perfectly with 60Mbit splitfile size. No sound for ver504 however. Q1 slider seems to make no difference as does reducing the splitfile size. Changing the dacsettings to 16/441 does nothing. Any suggestions?

X3pb is attatched.

regards, Coen

I had the same non-stoppingproblem with engine #4 under XP-SP3.
I closed the application yet it continued playing and I was not able to stop it in the task manager until the track was over. Later I thought of the playerpriorities (thread and player) and set the highest one to a lower priority. Never had problems anymore...

Maybe this helps.

regards, Coen

I trust Peter to be unbiased in his choice for the OS that provides the best SQ. I'm glad he had an open mind enough to step back and discover more potential in XP than anyone could have imagined, even so much so that he still has no conclusive verdict of #3 over #4 after a week... Now that's commitment to ultimate fidelity!

I hope you all have a very nice and relaxed x-mas break, still looking forward to 2010,

regards, Coen

This sounds exiting!

I am still stuck on a legacy XP platform and I also happen to still love analog (LP) for the very easy emotional connection I can make with the music. Peterst's comments a few posts back are the reason I joined XXhighend in the first place after having an engine #3 experience on the headphones.
No matter how perfect current digital may sound, I still happen to lose interest after a while and suit it mainly to 'wallpaper' other activities.

Looking very much forward to engine #4!!

regards, Coen

No need to buy and wait:

There is complementary (=free) 176.4KHz RR material on the Computeraudiophile website.
There is a piano and a grand orchestra piece.

http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/Complimentary-241764-HRx-Downloads-Courtesy-Reference-Recordings

Look also for the LL recordings free hires material.

regards, Coen

Peter,

Thanks for the trouble. It is like you say. I have noticed no problems with doubling unchecked yet. I will have to live with the inconvenience until Win7 (or Vista?) is operational.

regards, Coen

Hi Peter and calibrator,

Thanks for the welcome and the quick and elaborate response. Sorry otoh to bother you with tedious testing on a OS that most XXHE users don't run for music anymore.

Some extra info might be helpfull:

1) I got a new errormessage today (attatched) when starting up XXHE.

2) The OS is on a seperate partition with plenty memory available (40 Gig). I will try increasing the swap file (from 1.5 gig to something higher).

3) setting the music root cured the screen problem like you suggested!

4) I cannot remember what I did to get this situation, I did fiddle with the playlist possibly also with selecting another track. FYI: the 'truncated' playing was at all tracks in the list....

I still think XXHE on XP is no slouch soundwise.

Your suggestion to take the low budget pc route is taken in consideration. I have found the more ambitiuos Vista PC of my wife to resemble a running vacuum cleaner (slightly exgaggerated). PSU, CPU coolingfan and a for some reason allways active harddisc make it so noisy that I fear to have no more than 8 bits of DR left for playing music (LOUDLY).
In the end of the day I will be going to spend some cash on a fanless PSU, fanless case and SSD; I've grown quite allergic to PC noise. In the mean time I can save up and give the in house Vista PC a try on my rig to be experienced by XXHEs true potential.
So Vista/win7 it will be for SQ.

Thanks again,
Coen

Hello,

This is my first post on this forum. I know the focus is on developing on Vista for good reasons, I am however stuck for the moment with XP and I have NO complaints on the SQ!!!!

I have however experienced a few problems before and after activating XXHE on an XP (HE SP3) pc.

1) to start with the most annoying: after activation XX does not play music anymore, nor on #1, nor on #2. It responds with: 'Not enough system resources (memory ?)'
There is for shure enough memory on board (1.5 Gig free on this one) and only one track in the playlist. No upsampling, sound is directed to the 'standard audio device' which is the on board conexant audiothing or my external FW DAC. XX is the only app started by me.

2) My audio pc memory overflows after a 3 or 4 of tracks (>1.2Gbit) and the player stops as result of to little memory left. Note this was with upsampling ticked on.

3) When the XX screen builds it 'forgets' a lot of buttons etc, unless I resize the window or pass the pointerarrow over an -active-button. In full screen mode there is no problem.

4) Under a certain circumstance which I have not been able to reproduce the player jumps suddenly from one track to the next. I observed that the music as I know it hadn't finished yet, however the album/track pointer hit prematurely the end.

5) When player priority is 'real time' the screensaver stops working. This is not a bug, just something that took me some time to realise!

About running XX on XP:
I realise the full potential of XX is only unleashed on vista, but I am very reluctant (yet) to upgrade after experiencing Vista on a far, far more capable PC: its performance (start-up time, application launch, stability) was quite disappointing compared to XP on a p3 866. The UI isn't my cup of thea either, but this might be a getting-used-to-it issue.
People I trust on this matter do still advise XP for a 'trouble free' OS. The hardware requirements would mean that I would need a complete new PC to run Vista for which i do not have the funds at the moment. My PC audio setup consumes very low power to minimise the cooling requirments and thus noise. Beefing up the performance will also inherently require more effort to quieten it all down again.

And something elso a little on-topic: how do I search the forum efficiently since I get way to many results for 'XP' (every eXPerience is also a hit)...

I hope you can help me out on at least the first one soon

Thanks in advance,

regards, Coen